...There are many pros and cons when it comes to foster care. There are some really good things about being a foster parent or child, but there are also some really bad and hard things when getting into foster care. It affects the parent's life, the foster child’s life, and the whole family's lives. But, is becoming a foster parent worth it? Is the feeling of helping out a child who is really in need worth some of the bad things that might come of it? It could be a really good feeling to help out a family who needs it. Foster care can be confusing for some people, it is not the same thing as adoption, although it can lead to it. Foster care is a temporary care for a child, birth to 21 years old, whose parents cannot have custody of them until they get their home safe for the child to come back. This can be because of abuse, neglect, drug abuse, or anything that could cause harm to the...
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...private sector. The public sector is the part of the economic system that is run by government agencies. Privatization may involve either sale of government-held assets orREMOVAL of restrictions preventing private individuals and businesses from participating in a given industry. Privatization is an ongoing trend in many parts of the developed and developing world. Proponents of privatization maintain that the competition in the private sector fosters more efficient practices, which eventually yield better service and products, lower prices and less corruption. On the other hand, critics of privatization argue that some services -- such as health care, utilities, education andLAW ENFORCEMENT -- should be in the public sector to enable greater control and ensure more equitable access. CON Parents will want to save money— Every child needs access to an education and privatizing it will cost many children the chance at going to school. Not every parent isFINANCIALLY responsible and it eventually causes their kids to suffer. Education is a gateway in allowing a child to transcend economic and social status. We must not take away children's education at the expense of saving money. Parents may think if they have a family business, that their children can take over, but by doing that, you’re taking away your childrens right of having an education and exploring different fields that they may be interested in. PRO Gives students options—This will allow parents and eventually...
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...top leading company in the industry but those years are long gone. Over the years, it has been encountering the following problems that lead to a great concern for its top management. These problems are as follows: a. Declining market share due to increased foreign and domestic competition b. Few and far in between new product ideas c. Poor staff relationship – Departments such as manufacturing and sales barely spoke to each other d. Employee morale is in all time low – Many employees are actively seeking other jobs Top management is already aware of the company’s shortcomings and problems. This led to the hiring of new CEO, Martin Griffin, who is pushing for the new empowerment campaign. Management is aiming to foster a new era of employee involvement and empowerment amongst the employees of Elektra Products. With the increasing competition, Martin emphasized on the need for new ideas that will come from the employees. The new CEO believes that the new empowerment campaign is the best way to address the problem. This new empowerment will promote innovation and improvement of working relationship among the employee. However, throughout the case, there are additional problems that were not explicitly stated. Such issues were: e. Martin Griffin’s divided attention/interest when Barbara and her team were to report their ideas for improvements in manufacturing and retailing. When Barbara was assigned as a team leader for manufacturing she was...
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...International Adoption Imagine being a young, poor, child in a third world country that has lost their parents and in a foster care system. International adoption can help these less fortunate children and provide them with with a loving and caring family and has a roof over their head. International adoption can change these children’s lives in so many ways. International adoption is very popular in the United States. According to an article entitled “International Adoption”, since the mid 40’s and the end of WWII, thousands of children have been adopted internationally. Majority of the children that were adopted by United States citizens were abandoned by their parents because they couldn’t care for them because of personal reasons or strict laws (International Adoption). International adoption has gained a lot of popularity since its peak in the mid 40’s. More than 125,000 children have been adopted in the past couple of years (Adoption Statistics). Although internationally adopting children from around the globe may seem like a swell idea, there are...
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...It seems unfair that you were handed such a poor topic for a persuasive speech as Anit-Homeschooling surely is. It’s kind of hard to be ‘persuasive’ without facts and statistics to back up your (assigned) stance. And, unfortunately (for the sake of your assignment, at least), the only *statistics* and *facts* out there put homeschooling in a decidedly favorable light. What you *will* find are mere opinion pieces arguing against homeschooling. However, keep in mind these articles provide no substantiating evidence to support their “anti-homeschooling” stance. Such articles, unfortunately (for your assignment, at least), are based on mere myths--some of which have been expressed right HERE by some of your responders. To wit: A) quote:“Home schooled people [will] be passed over for someone that has been through a school that has testing standards as well as requirments (sic) and guidlines (sic) for the teachers them selves.” Wrong. Homeschooled students consistently outperform public school students on standardized tests. [http://www.academicleadership.org/empric... and elsewhere] Moreover, it is no secret that our public schools are failing and that we are far behind other industrialized nations in academic achievement. See: Public High Schools Failing: Colleges Now Spend Billions On Remedial Classes For Freshmen http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2... http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmJ... What’s Wrong With Our Schools http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/09/time...
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...question, people just wasn’t open to the idea. Now in society people are fighting to be able to have same sex marriage. In fourteen states so far there has been a bill passed to allow same sex marriage. Same sex marriage is now concerned a moral issue in society. Same sex marriage has its pros and cons on the situation. Just three years ago, support for gay marriage was 44%. The current 53% level of support is essentially double the 27% in Gallup's initial measurement on gay marriage, in 1996. Same sex marriage gives the same opportunity as someone who is in an opposite sex marriage. Everyone wants to be loved by someone that truly makes them happy, expressing love for someone just for being them but not looking at their gender. Most people thinks that it effects society but it has actually been helping as of July 13,2013 the divorce rate has went down in the states that has legalized same sex marriage. Same sex marriage get the joy of honoring their marriage in front of their love ones without being afraid of what others think. Gay marriage can provide care for children due to the fact that they can’t have children of their own that can adopt and take children out of the foster care system. Giving children in society another chance to have a good life. Same sex marriages still live by their morals when it comes to beliefs and how they chose to live. Everyone in the world should be able to live happy, whether it is someone of the same sex or the opposite, everyone should have...
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...I feel that the death penalty should not be abolished, at least not here in the United States. I feel that the death penalty should be administered because: • There’s an overflow of the human populace and the death penalty can (at least somewhat) keep the populace in check. However, if we were to abolish the death penalty, there might be an even greater inflation of the human populace. • There’s an overflow of criminals in the court systems and not many efficient ways of handling these prisoners; however, with the death penalty set in place, there’s at least one guaranteed method of dealing with inmates if they step too far out of line. • The death penalty is a significantly cheaper and more efficient way of handling prisoners; especially those with a life sentence on their heads. The cost of keeping a...
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...Technology Assessment Angela Foster Professor Griffin Health Information Systems January 22, 2012 Through analysis we see that there are many technological advances that need to be made. We’ll start with Communication. Communication must be improved between doctors and patients and hospital staff as a whole. Communication plays a key role in maintaining a patient’s health as any patient or doctor can tell you. Records must be improved upon how there are kept and stored. They must now be kept and stored digitally in order for doctors to have better access to them. Old handwritten files and charts can be misplaced, hard to read, or even out of date. A doctor would probably say if I know what’s going on then I could treat you which is basically what communication does. There’s also Compliance which plays a another big part of innovating technology. Compliance goes a long way by making sure the health care providers keep up with current innovative practices will insure better patient care on their part. Compliance plays a major role on the part of the patient. The patient must do whatever is asked of them by the doctor and health care staff that includes taking medications, keeping appointments, and communicating with doctors. Patients must also report any changes in the health which will let doctors know if the changes or compliance is working improving overall patient care. Another big need for innovation is Security. Security plays a big role because a patient must feel...
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...Montez Wilmer Critical Issues in Corrections Mr. Taroski My paper will discuss my opinion on whether or not I agree with "should women who are pregnant be incarcerated?" And "should mothers in prison be allowed to keep their babies with them?". Also my I will talk about who takes care of the children of the incarcerated women, and when the mothers go to prison who is responsible for the children left behind. Mothers being allowed bring their babies into prison while they are incarcerated can go two ways, there are pros and cons to having the babies in prison. I think that if this was allowed, other inmates that have a problem with that mother have an opportunity to hurt that mothers child. If they get into a heated argument the other inmates could try to seriously injure the baby or even try to kill the baby. Also if mothers were allowed to have their babies in prison, the prison system would have to spend money on a separate facility for the babies to stay, something like a day care so that the mothers can always come visit their children when they are allowed to. Another thing with women being allowed to have their babies in prison is the humiliation that child would have to live through growing up when they no longer live in the prison. They would have to deal with people calling them a prison baby thinking that they have no outside skills like they were the ones who were serving the time in prison. Also the children would miss out on a normal life because...
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...replace formal lines of authority. Barriers that once separated organizational members are resolved and team members react spontaneously to problems that may occur. Outside boundary less organizations the needs are met through outsourcing contracts and outside alliances that come together. These relationships are forever changing so they would look different day to day. Technology and the absence of hierarchy have allowed for the acceptance of boundary less organization. The primary focus of a boundary less form is on talent for task. This understanding is that people can work together without restrictions and accomplish great things (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007). The boundary less organization has a relax structure. It fosters a quality, timeliness, creative and flexible setting which in return increase the amount of time it takes...
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...Capital Structure of Sonoco By: Glenn C. Mack FIN 560 Financial Management of the Enterprise Salem International University June 15th 2014 In finance, capital structure refers to the way a corporation finances its assets through some combination of equity, debt, or hybrid securities. A firm's capital structure is then the composition or 'structure' of its liabilities. For example, a firm that sells $20 billion in equity and $80 billion in debt is said to be 20% equity-financed and 80% debt-financed. The firm's ratio of debt to total financing, 80% in this example, is referred to as the firm's leverage. In reality, capital structure may be highly complex and include dozens of sources. Gearing Ratio is the proportion of the capital employed of the firm which come from outside of the business finance, e.g. by taking a short term loan etc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_structure). Introduction Packaging is the expertise of protecting a product for distributing, storage, sale, and use. Research shows that packaging can be traced back to the ancient times. In this research paper we will be looking at the company Sonoco Products history, capital adequacy, its cash flow, its financing history and future plans. This company has a personal attachment to my family. It supported 3 generations of my family financially. My great grandfather (Tommy Mack) started working with the company in the 1940’s. Grandfather (Lee...
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...Health Care Reform Pros and Cons Halcyone Russell Strayer University Professor Beth Cox Politics, Policy And Ethics in Public Sector- PAD 510 December 2, 2011 Scientific evidence can be used in showing the positives of the Health Care Reform. If you lost your job next week your insurance would likely go with it. Excluding temporary programs like COBRA, losing your job basically means losing your health insurance too. Sure you can buy your own, but that can get expensive and there are often holes in the policy than with employer provided health insurance. Under a universal system, you don’t have to worry. Imagine you had to pay each month for access to use the police. If you lost your job and couldn’t afford the police bill and called 911, you wouldn’t get service. That sure sounds awful. The most fundamental underlying basis of universal health care is the fact that in the system, you don’t have to worry about not being covered. The United States spends more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other developed nation. Countries that have some kind of universal coverage generally spend less. This is because the costs of a universal system are less than private. Drugs can be purchased in greater bulk, prices for services can be negotiated at a lower rate due to the larger pool, and a large singular system would reduce the overhead involved in processing insurance and medical services. Furthermore we already have laws in the US that require emergency rooms...
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...report in order to improve the business performance of the restaurant. The report consists of 10 sections. Section 1 is a brief introduction. Section 2 describes the chosen business. Section 3 discusses the importance of knowledge management and the purpose of BI. Section 4 conducts a Porter’s Five Forces analysis on the business. Section 5 explains why web traffics is not a good indicator for web sales or website success and make recommendations to improve the website. Section 6 recommend Sina Weibo as the social media tool for marketing of the business and explain barriers to use this medium. Recommendations are made. Section 7 explains how the restaurant can use mobile App to marketing and increase sales. Section 8 is concerning with system customization. Section 9 discusses the importance of data security and potential threats as well as recommendation to secure the data. Section 10 is a conclusion. Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 1. Introduction 3 2. Chosen Business 4 3. Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence (BI) 4 4. Porter’s Five Forces Model 5 4.1. An Analysis of Buyer Power and Supplier Power 5 4.1.1 The bargaining Power of Buyer 5 4.1.2 The Bargaining Power of Supplier 5 4.1.3 Strategies to combat the competition 6 4.2. An Analysis of Rivalry, Entry Barriers and The Threat of Substitute Products 6 4.2.1 The intensity of Rivalry 6 4.2.2 The Threat of New Entrants 7 4.2.3 The Threat of Substitutes 7 5 Website Success...
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...criticism. Indeed, almost ten years after the act was signed into law by President Bush on January 8, 2002 there is overwhelming evidence that the NCLB law is deeply flawed and is doing more harm than good in our nation’s public schools. Public recognition of the law’s shortcomings has produced a growing consensus of a fundamental need for overhaul. A new conception of the federal role in education needs to be addressed beyond standards, tests and punishment. Our nation’s schools need to be strengthened in order to truly leave no child behind, but how did such a promising law go so wrong? Reviewing the NCLB act there are many positive attributes: accountability standards are set and measured annually by each state to promote and foster educational growth and achievement; standards are set for teacher qualifications; reading, writing and math are emphasized; educational status and growth by ethnicity are measured to help close the achievement gap between white and minority students; schools are required to focus on providing quality education to students who are often underserved, including children from low income families, non English speakers, as well as children with disabilities; and detailed reports of students achievements and explanations are provided to parents annually. With all this attention and focus on public schools, students’ educational performance should be improving....
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Issue Identification 4 Environment and Root Cause Analysis 5 Alternatives or Options 7 Recommendations 10 Implementation 12 Monitor and Control 14 Conclusion 15 Executive Summary As director of Supply Chain Systems, I have decided to implement some of the key components of the new supply chain strategy of Virtual Integration from the companies like Dell Computer Corporation. Though there are several differences between the companies, Dell’s virtual integration strategy can be applied to Ford’s supply chain operation. A modified Virtual Integration System can be applied to Ford’s dependent supplied base, distribution system and dealerships. Special care needs to be taken to address the issue of unique dependency of our Tier 1 suppliers. The management of Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers would be more suited by the standard procedures used by Dell. If we could find a solution to all the obstacles of virtual integration at Ford, it could make our supply chain run smoothly with the best inventory solutions and overall performance. Managers will be able to overcome the complex and faulty manual process of forecasting and procuring parts which result in reduced OTD, thus decreasing the costs and enhancing customer satisfaction. Issues Identification • Inaccurate forecasting • Supply chain based on outsourcing dependent on large supplier network • Ineffective communication in supplier network • Long Cycle Times • Dealer...
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